Sudan

Lynsey Addario for The New York Times

News about Sudan, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Jul. 2, 2015

Nicholas Kristof Op-Ed column documents savagery, death and human suffering that have resulted from bombing campaign by Sudanese Pres Omar Hassan al-Bashir against his own people; notes al-Bashir has barred humanitarian aid and journalists as part of counterinsurgency campaign in Nuba Mountains region; calls on Pres Obama and international community to demand humanitarian, particularly medical, access to Sudanese villagers and to forge ahead if permission is denied. MORE

Jun. 30, 2015

United Nations Security Council unanimously votes to keep peacekeeping troops in Sudan's Darfur region for at least one more year; fails to reach consensus on how to expedite arrest of Pres Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who is charged by International Criminal Court with genocide and crimes against humanity. MORE

Jun. 28, 2015

Nicholas Kristof Op-Ed column points to example of Catholic missionary Dr Tom Catena to refute caricature that devout religious believers are sanctimonious hypocrites; notes that Catena is only doctor caring for people in Nuba Mountains, who are shelled daily by Sudanese government, even as rest of world ignores their plight. MORE

Jun. 21, 2015

Nicholas Kristof Op-Ed column describes bombings that people in Nuba Mountains in Sudan have endured as part of Pres Omar Hassan al-Bashir's strategy to rout rebels there; asserts that Bashir should be brought up on war crimes charges; laments that area has no strategic value for America and West and therefore receives little attention; criticizes Obama administration for its lack of action on issue. MORE

Jun. 18, 2015

Humanitarian groups claim United States has given up trying to end violence in Sudan created by Pres Omar Hassan al-Bashir, whose crackdown on insurgents has killed or displaced thousands of Sundanese; say reason is Sudan is cooperating with American intelligence and counter terrorism efforts. MORE

Jun. 16, 2015

South African authorities allow Sudanese Pres Omar Hassan al-Bashir to fly home after African Union meeting despite longstanding arrest warrant in International Criminal Court for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide; plane departs before South Africa's High Court rules that government is legally required to arrest him. MORE

Jun. 16, 2015

News Analysis; South Africa's refusal to arrest Sudanese Pres Omar Hassan al-Bashir on International Criminal Court warrant points out limitations of justice system that has no enforcement capability; move also illustrates ways in which member states use court to advance political interests. MORE

Jun. 15, 2015

Pres Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court on genocide charges, finds himself unable to leave South Africa following order from nation's High Court; ICC calls on South Africa to arrest Bashir, who has been extremely cautious in his travels since indictment was handed down in 2009; whether or not South Africa proceeds with arrest could determine long-term influence of ICC. MORE

Jun. 11, 2015

United Nations officials report that attacks on civilians in Darfur in 2015 have displaced at least 78,000 people and possibly 130,000 more. MORE

Apr. 28, 2015

Omar Hassan al-Bashir, president of Sudan for last 25 years, is re-elected with 94 percent of vote; Western governments say elections, which were boycotted by opposition groups, are not credible. MORE

Apr. 14, 2015

Presidential election in Sudan begins amid country’s political unrest and violent conflicts; boycott by opposition groups and general apathy of voters is expected to lead to low turnout and probable reelection of Pres Omar Hassan al-Bashir. MORE

Mar. 27, 2015

Sudan joins fight against Houthis rebels in Yemen to aid its ally Saudi Arabia. MORE

Mar. 26, 2015

Justice Dept says subsidiary of Schlumberger Oilfield Holdings will pay $237.2 million fine after pleading guilty to violating sanctions related to Iran and Sudan. MORE

Mar. 24, 2015

Agreement to fairly share water from Nile and peacefully resolve any related disputes is signed by Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan, alleviating concerns raised by Ethiopia's massive hydro-electric dam project. MORE

Mar. 10, 2015

Fatou Bensouda, chief prosecutor for International Criminal Court, asks United Nations Security Council to enforce extradition of Sudanese Pres Omar Hassan al-Bashir; had previously said she was suspending criminal investigations of Darfur atrocities due to lack of cooperation from Sudan. MORE

Feb. 26, 2015

Op-Ed article by actor George Clooney and policy experts John Prendergast and Akshaya Kumar warns that Sudanese government is using sexual violence to terrorize displaced Darfuris; calls for investigation and new wave of sanctions targeted at those who do business with country's regime. MORE

Feb. 12, 2015

Human Rights Watch reports that Sudanese soldiers raped more than 200 women and girls in Darfur during two-day period in late October 2014; incident adds to mounting toll of horrors that citizens there are grappling with. MORE

Feb. 1, 2015

Nicholas Kristof Op-Ed column suggests best way to honor victims of historical atrocities like those committed during Holocaust is to stand up to current-day slaughter in places like Sudan; warns that commemorating liberation of Auschwitz and remembering brutality of Armenian genocide and war crimes of Japan during World War II are not enough. MORE

Jan. 9, 2015

Addis Ababa Memo; gathering of Sudanese officials, rebels, politicians, activists and international observers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, offers new hope that peace accord can be struck; after talks failed in December 2014, analysts are wondering whether divided Sudanese government, can, or even really wants to, reach a deal. MORE

Dec. 26, 2014

United Nations announces plans to further cut down on number of peacekeeping forces in Darfur, Sudan, despite renewed violence that has driven 457,000 people from their homes in 2014 alone; statement comes in wake of International Criminal Court's suspension of genocide case against Sudan Pres Omar Hassan al-Bashir; two announcements show how international attention to crisis in Darfur has been overshadowed by other, newer crises elsewhere. MORE

Dec. 10, 2014

Sudanese government and rebels say they have failed to agree on a cease-fire after three weeks of negotiations to end a three-year conflict. MORE

Nov. 24, 2014

Sudanese government and two rebel groups from Darfur region begin talks in Ethiopia over conflict that erupted in 2003. MORE

Nov. 18, 2014

Talks between Sudanese government and Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North adjourn in Ethiopia, to be reconvened at date yet to be determined; it is seventh round of negotiations between government and rebel group, and former South African Pres Thabo Mbeki, African Union's chief mediator, says there has been progress. MORE

Nov. 6, 2014

United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission says it is investigating reports of rapes of 200 women in the Darfur region of western Sudan. MORE

Oct. 17, 2014

Three peacekeepers serving in the joint United Nations-African Union force in the Darfur region of Sudan are killed in an attack by gunmen. MORE

Sep. 10, 2014

Human Rights Watch reports that thousands of Sudanese migrants to Israel and hundreds of Eritreans have returned to their home countries as result of policy that amounts to 'unlawful coercion'; group says migrants were left few options despite fact they faced imprisonment or abuse at the hands of repressive governments back home. MORE

Jul. 25, 2014

Pope Francis meets with Mariam Ibraheem Ishag, Christian woman whose death sentence in Sudan for refusing to renounce her faith set off an international protest. MORE

Jun. 30, 2014

The giant French bank admitted to transferring billions of dollars on behalf of Sudan and other countries the United States has blacklisted. MORE

Jun. 28, 2014

Mariam Ibraheem Ishag, who was convicted of apostasy for deserting her father's Muslim religion and marrying a Christian man, is now at the American Embassy in Khartoum for her own protection, after she was briefly detained at Khartoum airport by Sudanese authorities. MORE

Jun. 26, 2014

The move would be the culmination of a widespread investigation into the French bank for transferring billions of dollars on behalf of Sudan and other countries blacklisted by the United States. MORE

Jun. 25, 2014

Enough Project, activist group that aims to prevent genocide, charges that Sudanese government's Rapid Support Forces are a version of the janjaweed, notorious militias that terrorized the restive Darfur region for years, and are again terrorizing civilians and attacking villages; Sudanese government denies the group's allegations, touting its new recruits as patriots battling back various threats to the Sudanese state. MORE

Jun. 24, 2014

Sudanese Foreign Ministry summons American and South Sudanese ambassadors after a Christian-convert woman, Meriam Ibrahim, attempts to travel to the United States using documents issued by the embassy of South Sudan. MORE

Jun. 24, 2014

Meriam Ibrahim, Sudanese woman on death row after being convicted of apostasy for marrying a Christian, has her sentence canceled and is ordered released by Khartoum court. MORE

Jun. 18, 2014

Sudanese Air Force attacks village of Farandalla, heavily damaging hospital run by humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders. MORE

Jun. 9, 2014

Sudanese authorities arrest Ibrahim al-Sheikh, leader of opposition Congress Party, after he delivers speech blaming government for violence in Darfur; incident follows arrest of opposition leader Sadiq al-Mahdi in May; arrests are likely to hurt prospect of dialogue talks intended to ease tensions among political parties ahead of 2015 elections. MORE

Jun. 6, 2014

Unit of Fokker Technologies of the Netherlands, leading aerospace company and Pentagon contractor, agrees to pay $21 million in penalties to settle accusations it repeatedly violated United States sanctions on sales of aircraft parts to Iran and Sudan. MORE

Jun. 5, 2014

The giant French bank is considering a rare concession that points to the severity of an inquiry into dealings with Sudan and Iran. MORE

Jun. 3, 2014

Prosecutors said the memo from the law firm of France’s largest bank applied to only a small fraction of its wrongdoing. MORE

May. 16, 2014

Meriam Ibrahim, Sudanese woman who married a Christian man, is sentenced to death after she refuses to recant her Christian faith; Sudan's penal code criminalizes the conversion of Muslims to other religions. MORE

Mar. 13, 2014

Sudanese riot police officers fire tear gas on protesters after the funeral of Ali Abaker Musa Idris, University of Khartoum student who was shot to death when student activists from Darfur were demonstrating against an escalation of violence there. MORE

Feb. 18, 2014

Khartoum Journal; Sudanese television show Mashrouy, version of The Apprentice, has kindled the imagination of Sudanese youth at a time of national economic hardship. MORE

Feb. 12, 2014

Human Rights Watch reports that security officers in Egypt and Sudan have in some cases colluded with human traffickers who kidnap and torture Eritrean refugees in order to extort money from refugees' relatives. MORE

Feb. 3, 2014

Sudanese government orders International Committee of the Red Cross to suspend its operations in the country, claiming that group has not met conditions for aid groups there. MORE

Jan. 8, 2014

Sudan backs away from Foreign Min Ali Ahmed Karti's assertion that it held talked with South Sudan about creating joint force to protect threatened southern oil fields; suggestion of sending Sudanese troops to help government of South Sudan while it is descending into civil war was met with criticism. MORE

Jan. 7, 2014

South Sudan and Sudan are discussing joint patrols in the South's oil-producing states, discussion that would have seemed unthinkable just a few years ago; while the conflict in South Sudan has drawn the attention of the world, nowhere are leaders watching the crisis with more interest than in Sudan. MORE

Dec. 18, 2013

About 200 asylum seekers from Sudan and Eritrea stage demonstration in Israel to protest their treatment by authorities and Parliament's approval of law allowing for detention of immigrants who enter country illegally for up to year without trial. MORE

Dec. 8, 2013

Jacob Deng Mach, former Lost Boy from Sudan, has found that his dream of a better life in America is both all around and just outside his grasp; other Lost Boys who have come to the United States have struggled to assimilate and grappled with searching for economic security. MORE

Nov. 1, 2013

Residents of disputed district of Abyei vote overwhelmingly in favor of joining South Sudan; nonbinding referendum is not recognized by governments of Sudan and South Sudan or by the African Union. MORE

Oct. 28, 2013

Residents of disputed Abyei region on border of Sudan and South Sudan begin voting in referendum on which country to be part of; voting is largely symbolic but could have real consequences if it raises tensions and prompts further conflict in area plagued with violence. MORE

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General Information on Sudan

Official Name: Republic of Sudan
Capital: Khartoum (Current local time)
Government Type: Government of National Unity (GNU), the National Congress Party (NCP) and Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) formed a power-sharing government under the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement.
Population: 39.38 million
Area: 967,500 square miles; almost the size of continental U.S. east of the Mississippi River
Languages: Arabic (official), Nubian, Ta Bedawie, diverse dialects of Nilotic, Nilo-Hamitic, Sudanic languages, English
Literacy: Total Population: [61%] Male: [71%]; Female: [52%]
Year of Independence: 1956